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What psi do you have the rear tires at? The locker in the rear makes it so you can steer with your right foot. The lower the psi in the back and the more you can make it point left or right by throttle movement.

Piston shape and injector placement is what makes it able to burn just about anything. Design of the ip and other parts are what allows them to live on the drier fuels. The FDC just makes it so power "feels" the same on different fuels.

They did a 4 wheel alignment. All Firestone stores use Hunter equipment and it automatically does a 4 wheel. However, since it is a solid axle truck. I bet the guy doing the work didn't even look at the rear axle data. If you go back. Tell them you want to know what your thrust line is and...

Thanks for the tip. Seems I claimed success too soon. It was 72° on my way to work yesterday morning and I had a steady speedometer needle above 15 mph with bouncing below that. Good enough for me. It was 93° yesterday afternoon and I had a bouncing needle at any speed on the way home...

Check fluids, check your pink wire on top of the IP and maybe it just bounced around turning the engine on and off a few times before it stayed un plugged. If it is cranking over, it might not be that bad.

It all comes down to this. Get the nut loose and commence to beating on the thing with the biggest hammer you can pick up. Once you get it apart, clean the inside out, smear grease everywhere, flip it and tighten the nut back up. It will come apart with no problems for the next few years now...

You should be able to hear the shut off valve click open and closed. Be warned that it is a real pain to get to the shut off valve.

They were around $5200 yesterday morning when I looked and then quickly left that site to not be tempted.

Hitting the lunette side to side will also break the cone fit loose. BFH is your friend. 1-1/2" wrench is what you need for the big nut on the lunette by the way.

Shifting at 20 and 35 is more the normal. Probably just old vacuum lines and a little adjustment to the vacuum valve on the side of the IP. Many threads have been started about putting a 700R4 or 4L8E in the CUCV trucks. It can be done, but cost is often the stumbling block that stops it...

Not trying to sound doubtful, but 52" tall tires, a 6.71 gear ratio and a .80 over drive means 2458 rpm at 70 mph. Since 52's won't fit a M35 and the od is more around .85. How are you hitting 70-75 mph? Unless you are busting past 2600 rpm in which case you will be able to examine the...

I pulled the speedometer out last night, but left the gauge panel in. Light dirt, but still pretty clean. I oiled it up and ran it in a drill. Worked fine. I pulled the cable insert out, cleaned and oiled it up again too. No difference on my test drive. Then I pulled that stupid gear...

I have been dealing with a bouncing needle the last few weeks. Here are my suggestions. Pull the cable off the back of the speedo, get it down to where you can see it and watch it while you drive the truck forward and backward. If it moves nice and easy without noise, then time to pull the...

It comes back to the 25+ year old arguement again. There are seals inside the axles that will or have worn out. Same with the springs and the bushings for the springs. Nothing last forever. Most of the trucks have some spring sag to them. Especially in the rear of the M1009's. Go to the...

A M1009 would work great for what you described. However, even though you are getting a running, driving truck for basically nothing compared to new vehicle prices. Be prepared to spend about a modern vehicle payment each and every month on it until you go through all the wear items. No...

12.6 volts is a fully charged battery at rest. 14.4 volts is what each battery should show when the truck is running and the alternator is working. Depending on how you measure, you might get 12.0-14.4 on one battery and 26.4-28.8 on the other. 28.8 across both is considered the goal by the...

Do a test on each battery with a digital volt meter and then post what you find with the engine running.

Run your hand over the tread from outside to inside and than back out. Is it smooth going in and ruff coming back out? Kind of like a really dull saw blade? Then, that is a toe induced tread wear. If it is smooth in both directions, then it is a camber induced tread wear. You didn't...

What kind of pedal do you get with the air system empty? Did you adjust your shoes? You should have a pedal that will stop the truck with no air present. Have you checked the clearance of the pedal to master push rod? There should be some slop in there, otherwise the master piston never...

My M1009 had a speedometer that would be rock steady up to about 45 mph. Then it would jump about 20 mph faster than actual speed and just kind of float around until I slowed below 45 again. I pulled the cable insert, cleaned it, oiled and no change. I found another speedometer and installed...